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Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE (née Mironoff; born 26 July 1945), is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in ''The Queen''. In 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play,〔http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3109769/All-hail-Queen-Helen-Mirren-picks-second-major-gong-playing-Elizabeth-II-Tony-Award-Broadway-s-biggest-night.html〕 after two previous nominations, for her performance in ''The Audience'', in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II. ''The Audience'' was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote ''The Queen''.〔(Helen Mirren crowned top actress at top UK theatre awards ). Reuters. 28 April 2013〕 Mirren won her first of several Emmy Awards in 1993 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the acclaimed ITV series ''Prime Suspect'', which ran for a total of seven seasons from 1991 to 2006. Some of her other notable film roles include Marcella in the 1984 film ''Cal'', for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' (1989), ''The Madness of King George'' (1994), ''Teaching Mrs. Tingle'' (1999), ''Gosford Park'' (2001), ''Calendar Girls'' (2003), ''The Last Station'' (2009), ''Hitchcock'' (2012), and ''The Hundred-Foot Journey'' (2014). She also starred as Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy series ''Red'' and ''Red 2''. In 2003, she was made a Dame in the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Performing Arts.〔("Dame Helen centre stage at palace" ). BBC. 5 December 2003〕 In 2013, Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,〔("Helen Mirren Gets Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star" ). Sky News. 4 January 2013.〕 and in 2014, BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship. ==Early life and family== She was born ''Helen Lydia Mironoff''〔''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com〕 in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of Kathleen "Kitty" Alexandrina Eva Matilda (née Rogers; 1909–1996) and Vasily Petrovich Mironoff (1913–1980). Her mother was English and her father was Russian, originally from Kuryanovo, Smolensk Oblast.〔According to her 2007 memoirs "the fastest birth on record at that time. I wonder if anyone has broken it yet?"〕〔(Helen Mirren reveals the joy of meeting her Russian relatives ). Dailymail.co.uk (17 September 2013). Retrieved on 30 December 2013〕〔. nationsmemorybank.com〕 Mirren's paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Imperial Russian Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution.〔(Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov Collection: The Russian Government Committee in London (1914–1939) ). Ssees.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved on 30 December 2013〕 The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family and eventually settled down in England. His son, Helen Mirren's father, anglicised the family name to Mirren in the 1950s and changed his name to Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, and later drove a taxi cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren's mother was a working-class Londoner from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose own father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria.〔 Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist".〔Finn, Natalie (26 February 2007) . E! Online. Retrieved on 30 December 2013〕 Mirren was the second of three children; she was born three years after her older sister Katherine ("Kate"; born 1942), and had a younger brother Peter Basil (1948 - 2002), who was named after his grandfather and great-great-grandfather. Mirren was brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.〔Piccalo, Gina (7 February 2011) ("Helen Mirren interview" ). The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 November 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Mirren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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